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Power Shift: MIT scientists use machine learning to boost basil flavour

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May 21, 2019

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Caleb Harper

Former Director, OpenAg Initiative

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Optimizing plants for flavor, nutrition, and pharmaceutical content

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Note: On Oct. 25, 2021, the PLOS journal reporting the research discussed in this article retracted the publication.

Caleb Harper, director of the OpenAg Initiative at MIT, discusses how machine learning-enabled "food computers" were used to find the optimal conditions to grow basil.

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Johnson, Arielle, Caleb B. Harper, et al. “Flavor-Cyber-Agriculture: Optimization of Plant Metabolites in an Open-Source Control Environment through Surrogate Modeling.” PLOS ONE 14, no. 4 (April 3, 2019): e0213918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213918.

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